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Active aging through employment : a critical feminist perspective on Polish policy

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Zbyszewska, Ania (2016) Active aging through employment : a critical feminist perspective on Polish policy. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 32 (4). pp. 449-472. ISSN 0952-617X.

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Abstract

Age has become a crucial factor in labour market regulation measures undertaken in Poland in the last several years. Inspired by Europe 2020 strategy of ‘smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’, Poland’s own long-term development plans, especially those adopted by the former Civic Platform-led administration, feature significant emphasis on extended working lives as essential to economic sustainability. Given low employment rates among Poland’s older age cohorts, and the shortfall between the actual and statutory age of retirement, many of the country’s active aging measures have focused primarily on employment activation of workers above the age 50. The policy mix of supply-side activation techniques and demand-side incentives, combined with pension system reforms, have been the key measures designed to encourage longer working lives. Yet, to what extent are these measures achievable and adequate? Using a feminist, socio-legal perspective, this paper critically evaluates Poland’s active aging policy and reforms by locating them at intersection of the transformation and re-structuring of the Polish welfare state and the re-regulation of the country’s labour market according to neoliberal proscriptions. Two key points of interest – or sources of tension – are identified: the extent to which the efforts to bolster older people’s employment participation take adequate notice of labour market conditions and the roles that older people play in the provision of care and other activities involved in maintenance of living standards. As the paper shows, the potentially negative consequences of this policy trajectory for older people’s wellbeing in and out of the labour market, and for the organization of care and the broader processes of social reproduction, have tended to be downplayed in policy and legal reform, while being potentially exacerbated by them.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Older people -- Employment -- Poland, Labor market -- Government policy -- Poland, Public welfare -- Government policy -- Poland, European Union countries -- 21st century
Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
ISSN: 0952-617X
Official Date: 2016
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2016Published
19 June 2016Accepted
Volume: 32
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 449-472
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 20 September 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 May 2017
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